Method of embedding artificial hair.



A. POPOVIGS.

METHOD 0I" BMBBDDING ARTIFICIAL HAIR.

APPLICATION FILED DEU. 4, 1909.

Amantea Apr. 22,1913.

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'AUREL rorovrcs, o1?s TRK-mmzsn, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

METHOD or' EMBEDDING An'rIrjIcIAL Hain.

4Speeic-ation of Letters Patent.

Patented pr. 22, 191.3.

Application led December 4, 1909. Serial No. 531,406.

To all whom it may concern:

-Be it known that I, AUREL Porovros, royal l notary, of Trk-Kanizsa,Austria-Hungary,

have inventedy a certain new and useful l Method of Embedding ArtificialHairtofv which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a process by means of which hairs can beplanted into the skin, especially the scalp, with such a degree ofperfection as to render the artificial nature of the hair covering thusproduced completely unnoticeable. -According to the present inventionthis result is obtained by rendering the skin insensible to 'puncturesand embedding the ends of the hairs into the latter. Since the hairs areattached in this manner directly to the skin, they form a hair coveringwhich inall respects gives the impression of natural hair, and which canVbe treated in exactly the same manner,

namely combed, brushed, etc., as natural hair. In thus' embedding hairsinto the skin, the inserted hairs are prevented from falling out byinserting very small retaining elements, such as very small hooks, intothe skin together with the hairs to be embedded. These hooks areattached to the hairs to be embedded or are made as parts of the hairs,and they remain attached to'the skin.

The improved instrument for carrying out this process, may beconstructed in many various ways, and it consists substantially of ahollow needle in which lthe hollow space extends also through the pointofkthe needle.

In operating the hairs are passed either single or ,looped through thehollow of the needle so that their ends or loops project from the pointof the needle.

The above-mentioned retaining elements such as for instance single,double or multiple hooks are arranged` at the ends or loops of thehairs, projecting from the point of the needle.

The pointof the needle, together with the l end of the hair or hairs theretaining element or elements projecting therefrom is inthe ends ofVthe' troduced under the skin Iafter the latter has been renderedinsensible, and then the needle is withdrawn. The retaining ele-.

ment remains hooked in the skin and fixes the hair attached to or formedin one piece with the said hook, securely in the skin.

Une form of the improved instrument const-ructed according tothe presentinvention is illustrated by way of example on an enlarged scale in theaccompanying drawings, in which: 4

Figure 1. is a longitudinal section of the instrument ready for use.Fig. 2. is a 1ongitudinal section; and Fig; 3. is an elevation of theinstrument with the needle-holder screwed back.

The needle-holder 1- (Fig. l.) which can be unscrewed from the sheath 2in the manner shown in Figs. 2. and 8., carries Vthe needle -3- which ishollowl throughout its entire length and possesses a point of anydescribed shape, for example spearshaped, short or long, but preferablyshort for example 1 mm.

One or more single or doubled hairs -4- are passed through the hollowneedle, so that their ends (when single) or their loops (when doubled)project from the point of the needle.- These projecting ends or loopsare then attached in a suitable manner to the hook or hooks -5-, forexample by hooking them into the eye formed on the one limb of the saidhook. The projecting ends o'r loop'of'the hairs may also be formed ashooks. When the hair is drawn tight, the other limb of the hook -5-takes up a position in the direction of thev arrow X., against the edgeof the point of the needle, and reaches somewhat over this edge with itsfree end. In this position of the parts, if the needle be now introducedinto the skin and then withdrawn, the little hook -5- remains embeddedin the skin and will. prevent the hairVA from falling out.4

The hooks which may be constructed in various forms', are preferablymade of precious metals, such as gold, or they can be formed ofkthehairs themselves.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letbelow the surface of the skin,substantially' l ters Patent of the United States is: as described. l10

The improved method of embedding the In Witnesswhereof I have hereuntoset my Y ends of hairs in a human scalp which conhand in presence of twoWitnesses. f

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ment, in simultaneously piercing a m1nute Witnesses: 4 l cavity in thescalp and inserting the end E. ST. KELEMEN,

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